The European Parliament and Council decision on the reform of the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Regulation announced this week, hailed as protective for health, will keep children exposed to hazardous flame-retardant chemicals associated with thyroid disruption and neurological deficits. HEAL, Arnika and IPEN react.
Energy poverty is a matter of life and death for many Europeans according to new research published today by the European Right to Energy coalition, with expert input provided by HEAL, which reveals a majority of EU countries have significant levels of energy poverty.
In an upcoming Council meeting on 5th March, EU Environment Ministers have an opportunity to call on the EU Commission to develop specific proposals for how the European Union can systematically reduce human and environmental exposures to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).
Sixteen outdated coal power plants in the Western Balkans are a public health and economic liability for the whole of Europe, with people in the EU bearing the majority of the health impacts and costs, according to a new report by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), Sandbag, Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, CEE Bankwatch Network and Europe Beyond Coal. The European Union (EU) needs to use all of the tools available to improve health, prolong lives, save health costs and increase productivity both in the EU and in the Western Balkan region.
Last night, 14 February, all political parties in the Turkish Parliament agreed to withdraw a proposal on granting exemptions from environmental investments including filtration systems, flue gas facilities and ash…
The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) is honoured to be a stakeholder in a new research project on the development of methods to identify endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that are toxic to female reproduction, which was launched on 1st January 2019 and will last for five years.
The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe and CEE Bankwatch invite you to a press briefing on the latest analysis of the health and economic costs…
The EDC-Free Europe campaign and the Green 10 - a coalition of ten of the largest environmental organisations and networks active on the European level - urge the EU Commission to deliver on its promise to publish its 2018 plans for a non-toxic environment.
This week a EU committee will discuss and potentially vote on a large number of chemicals classification and labelling, restriction and authorisation proposals. If granted, these authorisations will allow the…
France’s initiative to update its national action plan on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) can be an inspiring driver for European action towards the reduction of exposure to toxic chemicals and…
The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), the European Federation of Asthma and Airways Diseases Patients Association (EFA), representing 100+ health organisations and thousands of…
Open Letter by health, environmental, transport and legal civil society organisations, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cancer patients
Incentives and pollution exemptions given to the privatised coal power plants can be extended until 2021, threatening health The Turkish government has already vowed to increase its coal-fired power generation…
